Media--New and Old

I read an article by Benedict Anderson today relating the uses of print to the formation of nation-states, and the rise of capitalism. Very interesting. One of the points Anderson makes in the essay, which is extracted from His book Imagined Communittes, is that languages from the 8th to the 12th century are vastly different. It's an obvious point that the Anglo-Saxon of Beowulf is vastly different from the Anglo-Norman of Chaucer. However, after the invention of the printing press, language started to change less frequently. The English of Donne is not so removed from the English that I use today. So, the way in which this connects with the rise of capitalism and nation-state, is that the printing media needed to find an audience, so it therefore expanded into the vernacular market, and needing to connect the vernacular with a lger audience fueled the need to have a unified language. Therefore the English of one part of England needed to be understood in another part. Therefore, as the markets for print expnaded, so did a uniformity of the country, and therefore created a representation tthrough language of the nation-state.
However, I was thinking about newspapers, and how they reflected the movement towards the nation, and the rise of a mass auience to print to. And thought of how that market has been collapsing for the past fifty years, and found this interesting article about newspapers's future.